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Industrial Revolution
Ch. 7 test review pp. 234-257
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History
9th Grade
12/06/2011

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Industrial Revolution
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the use of power driven machines.
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Enclousure Movement
Definition
New landowners combined all small fields,creating into a big one, and fenced the field.
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5 factors of success
Definition
exploration & colonialism, seapower, political stability, goverment support, and growth of private investment.
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Jethro Tull
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Created the Seed Drill.
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3 factors of production
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land, labor, and capital.
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Cottage Industry
Definition
craft occupation formed in the home.
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Factory
Definition
a building that housed industrial machines.
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Industrialization
Definition
The process of changing to power-driven machinery.
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Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney invention; removed seeds from cotton.
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Richard Arkwright
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Invented the Watering Frame.
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Flying Shuttle
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Invented by John Kay; allowed to weave twice as fast.
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James Watt
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Innovated a better steam engine.
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Robert Fulton
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Invented the steamboat.
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Samuel Slater
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Spinning Mule (mix between a hoarse and a donkey). Stronger and Finer.
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Lowell, MA
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Jewel of American Revolution.
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Problems for Cottage Industries
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Flood or fire can ruin a family's income.
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Workday Conditions in a Factory
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12 hour shifts, noisy, lack of ventilation, poor sanitation, and inadequate food.
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3 Main Levels of Participants within the new economy
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Wealthy bussiness people, mid-level employess (Manager),and Low-level employess(workers).
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Luddites
Definition
Opposied machines & "Hurtful to the Community."
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Labor Union
Definition
Orginization representing workers' intrest.
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Strike
Definition
Work Stoppages.
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Mass Production
Definition
Manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
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Interchangeable Parts
Definition
Eli Whitney Innovation; standard replacement parts, and the products identical machine-made parts.
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Assembley Line
Definition
Moved from worker to worker, and each worker preforms a specific step.
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Laissez-faire
Definition
The phrase meaning "Free to do".
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Adam Smith
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Leading advocateof Laissez-faire economics. "Wealth of Nations."
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
Concerened about population growth caused by the devoplement of industry.
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Entrepreneur
Definition
Someone who starts a new bussiness.
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Steel industry to new heights. Gave $350 million dollars to chanities.
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Robert Owen
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Built a Model Industrial town.
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Socialism
Definition
Goverment should own propertyand controll industry.
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Fredrich Engels
Definition
Less popular than Karl Marx. Partners with Karl Marx.
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Karl Marx
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Published "Das Kapitial". Partners with Fredrich Engels.
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The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Definition
No private property, all workers will not be exposed and forced to live in poverty and misery.
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Proletariat
Definition
Workers or working class people. Refered in "The Communist Manifesto" (1848).
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Bourgeoisie
Definition
A wealthy middle class; Capitalists.
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Das Kapital
Definition
Againts Capitalism.
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Communism
Definition
goverment owns almost all the means of production and controlls econimic planning.
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Standard of Living
Definition
Level of materialcomfort; for people in industrialized countries improved.
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Steam powered trains.
Definition
Carries heavy loads, no water-way, travel fasterthan watercraft.
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Henery Bessmer
Definition
Innovated stronger steel.
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Bessemer Process
Definition
Make Metal Britlle. Blow air into metal.
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Industrial city
Definition
raw materials sent to factories-> manufactured -> Consumer.
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Smog
Definition
Toxic toxions in the air.
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Capitialism
Definition
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
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